The Power of Imagination to Shift Culture & Consciousness By Dana Lynne Andersen MA Imagination and the Body We’ve learned something extraordinary. Our body responds as much to the images inside our heads as to the images in the world. In a convergence of insight across disciplines that include athletics, medicine, psychology and sociology, […]
Author: Dana Lynne Andersen
Rebirth and Transformation
Spring’s Pulsing Current of Transformation It’s been a tough time for many. But nature teaches us that spring ripens below the surface of winter. Beneath the shriveled, tangled and decaying surface there is a vitality of life growing in deeper roots. Beneath what feels stuck, tired & anxious, there is a seed […]
A Whole New World
“We are poised at the edge of a new world, vaster than we could have ever imagined. When my parents went to school, they were taught that the universe we inhabited was the size of a single galaxy. It was thought we might one day discover ‘another’ galaxy- perhaps several. A few decades later we […]
Looking Back from the Future
What do you think historians will call this extraordinary time when they look back on it from the future? The ‘Great Pause’? ‘The Time of the Turning?’ ‘The Between Times?’ The whole world is changing incredibly fast. Some changes are obvious and some are deeper shifts beneath the surface. There […]
2020 Solstice and the Jupiter Saturn Conjunction
2020 Solstice and Jupiter/Saturn conjunction Reflections by Dana Lynne Andersen A Year to Change the World Decades ago astrologers were talking about the year 2020. Looking at the momentous line-up of powerful astrological transits, astrologers considered what might unfold in the year that seemed destined to change the world…2020. For the ancients, the movements […]
Art & Creativity as Spiritual Practice by Nayaswami Asha
Sharing a lovely blog by Nayaswami Asha http://nayaswamiasha.org/heart/2018/09/art-creativity-as-spiritual-practice/#comment-94289
The Deep Unity at the Heart of Our Originality
The ORIGIN of our Originality Our Originality is a precious gift. It is an authenticity that originates in the unique pattern of each individual soul. Every one of us is unique in all of eternity. To discover and bring forth our intrinsic unique individual expression is our most sacred duty and our sweetest delight. […]
The Flowering of Children’s Natural Creativity
Creativity Is Intrinsic to Being Human All children love to create. Natural, joyful, original self expression is native to being alive, instinctive in us. If you give a box of crayons and a piece of paper to a four year old they know exactly what to do. They do not need explanations or instructions. […]
The Source of True ORIGINALITY
The Source of True Originality by Dana Lynne Andersen In a culture of materialism, originality has come to mean ‘breaking the rules’. The frontier is a ‘cutting edge’ found in a pursuit of limits and extremities. It doesn’t take long for this to become a contest of shock value as it has in the […]
Mandala, the sacred Art of Centering
Mandala, the sacred Art of Centering by Dana Lynne Andersen. Mandala is a Sanskrit word that means “circle”, signifying the primordial shape that represents wholeness, completeness and unity. The circle, and the sphere is symbolizes, encompasses the totality of the world. Even as a two-dimensional shape it ‘travels without leave taking’, as the line of […]
